What's your Shado-Pan reputation?

I hit 90 yesterday, did all the Shadopan quests in Townlong and Dread Wastes and the southwest corner of Kunlai. Now I'm stuck with 300 more reputation required to get honoured. I can't get any dailies in Townlong at their garrison like it was available in the beta. The NPC in the vale says I need to build rep with Golden Lotus first.

Did I miss any quests somewhere? Is it possible to be honoured just from the levelling quests?

This really does seem pointless. It will be some 18 days before we're able to work on Shado-Pan rep to buy an valor gear from them. By then the gear will be pointless. Blizzard is notorious for throttling the game. However, this is just one bad use of throttling. Valor gear that won't be obtainable for a month or so. I guess they designed the expac for us not to raid within the first month.

This system also doesn't help our alts either. Who will be a month or so even farther behind that. In the end we will all be left with the final tier for the last 10 months of the expac anyway and bored out of our minds. At least we have Farmville a la Valley of the Four Winds (Halfhill).

The same goes for August Celestials. No rep quests (dailies) from them until Golden Lotus is at Revered. So, two of the necessary factions are not accessible for 18 days at least. Then we get to farm rep from them. 30 days at least.

Think maybe they wanted you to enjoy the process rather than blowing through what was previously unneccesary content. In other xpacs you just threw on a tabard and repped in dungeons... I like this better... it gives me a reason to do dailies, thus farming more motes and other mats necessary.... possibly they didnt want you raiding seven days a week but instead to make it required for you to spend time on your "main".